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Catherine the Great (1762—96)
 
An obscure German princess, Sophia Augusta (b. 1729)
 
She came to Russia at the age of 15 to marry the heir of the Russian throne
With her conversion to Orthodoxy she took the name of Catherine
In 1762 she secured the Russian throne through a coup d’etat against her husband, Peter III
Catherine was well versed in the contemporary European thought: Voltaire, Thomas Hobbes, Charles-Louis Montesquieu
She sought to embrace the principles of the Enlightenment
“Enlightened Absolutism”
 
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